Tuesday, June 03, 2008

MUSIC FOR WEIRDOS

Chris Swank, a very kind and generous Maniac, has compiled four-count 'em-FOUR cds worth of wonderful tuneage: novelty, outsider, garage rock, celebrities, New Wave oddities, mashups, space age/Moog, and general weirdness, including plenty of songs that were originally posted here, but have since gone off-line.

He put these together just for his friends and fave bloggers, but has agreed to make it available for all y'alls. Be sure to thank him in comments!

Thanks, everybody, for the compliments. I was a bit apprehensive about posting these things in what I think is a somewhat more public place than where I've usually posted these, but I'm happy they met with a positive reception. If it's OK I may decide to post any upcoming volumes here if it's cool.

Looks like I have a couple of things to answer here, so I just hope my answers are satisfactory.To the first anonymous person, the file named ABCN76 is a piece of production music that was used to open the ABC Evening News back in 1976. Not sure what library it is or the title, but I nabbed it from a site all about music used as openers and bumpers for news, and I took the RealAudio file and converted it to MP3.

To the second anonymous person, I'm not sure where you can find artist info, as when I do these, I guess my priority is to just pick out the music and sort it. I like to just let the music speak for itself and I tend not to do anything like write up notes or try to come up with cover art or any of that sort of thing. This is just a little fun thing I like to do in the name of sharing tunes, and I'd rather not make it too much work if I can help it. So anyone wanting to do further research on the tracks might have to just do all that for themselves. I hope you understand and hope you don't think I'm being a jerk about it or anything, but I guess I don't want to play with the files too much once I get them. Just pick 'em out and sort 'em and zip 'em and upload 'em. I used to do compilations on tape and usually never supplied even a playlist.

holy cow, i'm in weirdo heaven! smells different than i thought. mr chris, superfantastic job on this and the other comps. looking forward to #7! and again, mr fab thanks for posting, and excellent excellent job on your site. binglec!